Track your Google search rankings automatically every day

Checks your target keywords in Google every morning and logs the top rankings into a spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken; runs once per each target keyword.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4) · Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
SEO & Search OptimizationSpreadsheet & Database OpsReporting & Analytics
Connects
DecodoGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

Checking where you rank in Google search results means running the same searches over and over, then copying results into a spreadsheet by hand. It's tedious enough that most teams only do it occasionally, so you miss the day your ranking actually moved.

Who it fits

An SEO specialist, content marketer, or agency that needs daily keyword rank tracking without paying for expensive rank-tracking software.

How it works

  1. Every morning, the system runs your chosen keyword searches on Google
  2. It pulls the real search results for your target country and device
  3. The top-ranking results are filtered out and matched against your keywords
  4. Rankings are added as a new row in your spreadsheet
  5. Any failed searches are logged separately so you can review them
What you get

Rankings tracked automatically every morning

You get your target keywords checked in Google every morning, with the results logged so you can watch your rankings move over time.

What you get

A daily updated spreadsheet showing where your keywords rank in Google search results.

What you need

A Google Sheets account and a Decodo API subscription.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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